| Year
|
Author(s)
|
Title
|
Publisher
|
Ref.
|
| 2000s
|
| 2008
|
Nick Abadzis
|
Laika
|
First Second Books
|
|
| Jacob Chabot
|
The Mighty Skullboy Army
|
Dark Horse Comics
|
|
| Scott Chantler
|
The Annotated Northwest Passage
|
Oni Press
|
|
| Manny Trembley and Eric A. Anderson
|
PX! Book One: A Girl and Her Panda
|
Shadowline/Image Comics
|
|
| James Sturm and Rich Tommaso
|
Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow
|
Center for Cartoon Studies/Hyperion Books for Children
|
|
| 2009
|
Neil Gaiman, adapted by P. Craig Russell
|
Coraline
|
HarperCollins Children’s Books
|
|
| Chris Schweizer
|
Crogan’s Vengeance
|
Oni Press
|
|
| Holly Black and Ted Naifeh
|
The Good Neighbors, Book 1: Kin
|
Scholastic Graphix
|
| Shannon Hale & Dean Hale and Nathan Hale
|
Rapunzel’s Revenge
|
Bloomsbury Children’s Books
|
| Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki
|
Skim
|
Groundwood Books
|
| 2010s
|
| 2010
|
Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson
|
Beasts of Burden
|
Dark Horse Comics
|
|
| Troy Little
|
Angora Napkin
|
IDW Publishing
|
|
| Eric Heuvel
|
A Family Secret
|
Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Anne Frank House
|
| Kevin Cannon
|
Far Arden
|
Top Shelf Productions
|
| Joe Kelly and Ken Niimura
|
I Kill Giants
|
Image Comics
|
| 2011
|
Raina Telgemeier
|
Smile
|
Scholastic Graphix
|
|
| Doug TenNapel
|
Ghostopolis
|
Scholastic Graphix
|
|
| Barry Deutsch
|
Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword
|
Amulet Books
|
| Jim McCann and Janet K. Lee
|
Return of the Dapper Men
|
Archaia Entertainment
|
| G. Neri and Randy DuBurke
|
Yummy: the Last Days of a Southside Shorty
|
Lee & Low Books
|
| 2012
|
Vera Brosgol
|
Anya's Ghost
|
First Second Books
|
|
| Matt Phelan
|
Around the World
|
Candlewick Press
|
|
| Gene Luen Yang and Thien Pham
|
Level Up
|
First Second Books
|
| Paul Kupperberg, Fernando Ruiz, Pat Kennedy & Tim Kennedy, Norm Breyfogle, et al.
|
Life With Archie
|
Archie Comics
|
| G. Willow Wilson and David López
|
Mystic
|
Marvel Comics
|
| 2013
|
Madeleine L'Engle, adapted by Hope Larson
|
A Wrinkle in Time
|
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
|
|
| Meredith Gran
|
Adventure Time: Marceline and the Scream Queens
|
KaBOOM!
|
|
| Joseph Lambert
|
Annie Sullivan and the Trials of Helen Keller
|
Center for Cartoon Studies/Disney Hyperion
|
| Ryan Inzana
|
Ichiro
|
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
|
| Josh Tierney, et al.
|
Spera, vol. 1
|
Archaia Entertainment
|
| 2014
|
Paul Pope
|
Battling Boy
|
First Second Books
|
|
| Matt Phelan
|
Bluffton: My Summers with Buster
|
Candlewick Press
|
|
| Gene Luen Yang
|
Boxers and Saints
|
First Second Books
|
| Sheila Keenan and Nathan Fox
|
Dogs of War
|
Scholastic Graphix
|
| John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell
|
March, Book One
|
Top Shelf Productions/IDW Publishing
|
| Jordan Mechner, LeUyen Pham, and Alex Puviland
|
Templar
|
First Second Books
|
| 2015
|
Shannon Watters, Grace Ellis, ND Stevenson, and Brooke A. Allen
|
Lumberjanes
|
Boom! Box
|
|
| Tony Sandoval
|
Doomboy
|
Magnetic Press
|
|
| Jimmy Gownley
|
The Dumbest Idea Ever
|
Scholastic Graphix
|
| Jeff Parker and Sandy Jarrell
|
Meteor Men
|
Oni Press
|
| Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew
|
The Shadow Hero
|
First Second Books
|
| Farel Dalrymple
|
The Wrenchies
|
First Second Books
|
| 2016
|
Jillian Tamaki
|
SuperMutant Magic Academy
|
Drawn & Quarterly
|
|
| Svetlana Chmakova
|
Awkward
|
Yen Press
|
|
| Don Brown
|
Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans
|
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
|
| John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell
|
March, Book Two
|
|
| Max de Radiguès
|
Moose
|
Conundrum Press
|
| Ben Towle
|
Oyster War
|
Oni Press
|
| 2017
|
Ryan North and Erica Henderson
|
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl
|
Marvel Comics
|
|
| John Allison
|
Bad Machinery, vol. 5: The Case of the Fire Inside
|
Oni Press
|
| Hope Larson and Rafael Albuquerque
|
Batgirl
|
DC Comics
|
| Chip Zdarsky, Ryan North, Erica Henderson, and Derek Charm
|
Jughead
|
Archie Comics
|
| Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda
|
Monstress
|
Image Comics
|
| Jessica Abel
|
Trish Trash: Roller Girl of Mars
|
Papercutz/Super Genius
|
| 2018
|
Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda
|
Monstress
|
Image Comics
|
|
| Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi
|
The Dam Keeper
|
First Second Books/Tonko House
|
|
| Aline Brosh McKenna and Ramón K. Pérez
|
Jane
|
Archaia Entertainment
|
| Fanny Britt and Isabelle Arsenault, translated by Christelle Morelli and Susan Ouriou
|
Louis Undercover
|
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
|
| Tillie Walden
|
Spinning
|
First Second Books
|
| 2019
|
Jen Wang
|
The Prince and the Dressmaker
|
First Second Books
|
|
| Hope Larson
|
All Summer Long
|
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
|
|
| Erin Nations
|
Gumballs
|
Top Shelf Productions/IDW Publishing
|
| Skottie Young and Jorge Corona
|
Middlewest
|
Image Comics
|
| Cat Seaton and Kit Seaton
|
Norroway, Book 1: The Black Bull of Norroway
|
Image Comics
|
| Tony Sandoval translated Lucas Marangon
|
Watersnakes
|
Magnetic Press/Lion Forge Comics
|
| 2020s
|
| 2020
|
Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O'Connell
|
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me
|
First Second Books/Macmillan Publishers
|
|
| Mariko Tamaki and Steve Pugh
|
Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass
|
DC Comics
|
|
| Ebony Flowers
|
Hot Combs
|
Drawn & Quarterly
|
| Colleen AF Venable and Ellen T. Crenshaw
|
Kiss Number 8
|
First Second Books/Macmillan Publishers
|
| MK Reed, Greg Means, and Matt Wiegle
|
Penny Nichols
|
Top Shelf Productions
|
| 2021
|
Gene Luen Yang
|
Dragon Hoops
|
First Second Books/Macmillan Publishers
|
|
| Ngozi Ukazu
|
Check, Please! Book 2: Sticks & Scones
|
First Second Books/Macmillan Publishers
|
|
| Kiku Hughes
|
Displacement
|
First Second Books/Macmillan Publishers
|
| Joel Christian Gill
|
Fights: One Boy’s Triumph Over Violence
|
Oni Press
|
| Sloane Leong
|
A Map to the Sun
|
First Second Books/Macmillan Publishers
|
| Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed
|
When Stars Are Scattered
|
Dial Books
|
| 2022
|
Shing Yin Khor
|
The Legend of Auntie Po
|
Kokila/Penguin Random House
|
|
| Marc Bernardin and Ariela Kristantina
|
Adora and the Distance
|
ComiXology
|
|
| David Bowles and Raúl the Third
|
Clockwork Curandera, vol. 1: The Witch Owl Parliament
|
Tu Books/Lee & Low Books
|
| Skottie Young and Humberto Ramos
|
Strange Academy
|
Marvel Comics
|
| James Tynion IV and Michael Dialynas
|
Wynd
|
Boom! Box
|